Timeline (click link)

Here I have a relatively short timeline showing the beginnings of forensics. The earliest known use of medical knowledge to a crime situation was done in China. In 1248 their was even an early book writen in china, The Hsi Duan Yu, in which the author made a distinguishment between drowning and strangulation. Early evidence of Roman culutre haveing a basic understanding of crime scene investigation has also been recorded. It's not until 1784 that real investigation of crimes moves into Engrland. Where as before the court system just did what ever the monarch said was right. It took a little over 300 years to move from the early Chinese and Roman ideas of investigation over the England. The first forensic lab was established in France about 200 hundred years after that. The world was slowly takeing steps toward honest investigation instead of quick justice. It's not until 1932 that the US establishes the FBI twenty two years after France's first forensic lab. The progress after that is much more fast paced until 1998/1999 when the FBI developed a DNA database and set up a system to automaticaly match fingerprints.